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2007-08 Endowed Lectures

All Endowed Lectures are free and open to the public

October 25, 2007, 8pm
Oak Room, Tressider Union

The Jewish Community Endowment Fund Lecture
Rebecca Goldstein, Author
Spinoza's Mind: How Spinoza Thought About The Mind and How Spinoza's Mind Thought

December 3, 2007, 8pm
Building 200, Room 02

The Aaron-Roland Lecture in Jewish Studies
Galit Hasan-Rokem, Professor of Folklore, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
The Wandering Jew of Modernity: The Route Between East and West, Back and Forth

The Clara Sumpf Yiddish Lecture Series
Dan Miron,
Leonard Kaye Professor of Hebrew Literature and Comparative Literature, Columbia University

1) Tuesday, February 26, 2008  12:00 noon
Location: Encina Hall Room C231
Literature as the vehicle for a nationalist "Rennaissance"- the models of I. L. Peretz and Kh. N. Bialik
(in Yiddish)

2) Wednesday, March 5, 2008  8:00 pm
Stanford Humanities Center, 424 Santa Teresa Avenue
Breathing Through Both Nostrils? Mendele Moicher Sforim's Yiddish/Hebrew Bilingualism
and its Cultural Significance (in English)

Free and Open to the Public